§1665. Reciprocal arrangements with federal and state agencies

A. The administrator may enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the United States, or both, whereby:

(1) Service performed by an individual for a single employing unit for which services are customarily performed by such individual in more than one state shall be deemed to be services performed entirely within any one of the states (a) in which any part of such individual's service is performed or (b) in which such individual has his residence or (c) in which the employing unit maintains a place of business, provided there is in effect, as to such services, an election, approved by the agency charged with the administration of such state's unemployment compensation law, pursuant to which all the services performed by such individual for such employing unit are deemed to be performed entirely within such state;

(2) Potential rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment compensation laws of one or more states or of the United States, or both, may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate agency under terms which the administrator finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not result in any substantial loss to the fund;

(3) Wages or services, upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under an unemployment compensation law of another state or of the United States, shall be deemed to be wages for insured work for the purpose of determining his rights to benefits under this Chapter, and wages for insured work, on the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under this Chapter shall be deemed to be wages or services on the basis of which unemployment compensation under such law of another state or of the United States is payable; but no such arrangement shall be entered into unless it contains provisions for reimbursements to the fund for such of the benefits paid under this Chapter upon the basis of such wages or services, and provisions for reimbursements from the fund for such of the compensation paid under such other law upon the basis of wages for insured work, as the administrator finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests; and

(4) For the purposes of R.S. 23:1543 through 1551, contributions due under this Chapter with respect to wages for insured work shall be deemed to have been paid to the fund as of the date payment was made as contributions therefor under another state or federal unemployment compensation law; but no such arrangement shall be entered into unless it contains provisions for the reimbursement of such contributions and the actual earnings thereon, as the administrator finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests.

(5) Reimbursements paid from the fund pursuant to Paragraph (3) of this Subsection shall be deemed to be benefits for the purpose of Parts II and V of this Chapter. The administrator may make to other state or federal agencies and receive from them, reimbursements from or to the fund, in accordance with arrangements entered into pursuant to the provisions of this Section.

B. The administrator may enter into reciprocal arrangements concerning recovery of overpaid benefits with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the United States, or both.

C. The Louisiana Workforce Commission shall work with multistate employers to propose interstate reciprocal agreements that will safeguard multi-state employers from paying duplicative unemployment insurance contributions on the same worker and protect the solvency of a state's trust fund by ensuring sufficient tax streams to cover benefit liabilities.

Acts 2013, No. 48, §1; Acts 2014, No. 753, §1.